The Establishment of the Balkan National States, 1804-1920

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University of Washington Press, 20 sept. 2012 - 374 pages
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This highly readable and thoroughly researched volume offers an excellent account of the development of seven Balkan peoples during the nineteenth and the first part of the twentieth centuries. Professors Charles and Barbara Jelavich have brought their rich knowledge of the Albanians, Bulgarians, Croatians, Greeks, Romanians, Serbians, and Slovenes to bear on every aspect of the area’s history--political, diplomatic, economic, social and cultural.

It took more than a century after the first Balkan uprising, that of the Serbians in 1804, for the Balkan people to free themselves from Ottoman and Habsburg rule. The Serbians and the Greeks were the first to do so; the Albanians, the Croatians, and the Slovenes the last. For each people the national revival took its own form and independence was achieved in its own way. The authors explore the contrasts and similarities among the peoples, within the context of the Ottoman Empire and Europe.

 

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Autonomous Bulgaria to 1896
158
Internal Political Developments to 1914
170
The Expulsion of the Ottoman Empire from Europe
207
The Establishment of Albania
222
Balkan Nationalities in the Habsburg Empire
235
Balkan Cultural Developments
266
The First World War
284
The Postwar Settlements
298

The Bulgarian National Movement to 1876
128
The Crisis of the Seventies
141
Conclusion
320
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